Chocolate Cake Donuts
Chocolate cake-style donuts made with added cocoa powder. Watch the color closely while frying to prevent over-browning.
Ingredients
shortening
45 g
sugar
125 g
salt
4 g
non-fat milk powder
24 g
vanilla extract
8 g
whole egg
45 g
egg yolk
15 g
cake flour
375 g
bread flour
125 g
cocoa powder
40 g
baking powder
15 g
baking soda (about 2/3 tsp)
3 g
water
265 g
Instructions
1
Mixing
Use the creaming method (page 168). Mix the dough until smooth, but do not overmix.
2
Shaping and Frying
Same as the cake donuts above. Note: When frying chocolate donuts, watch carefully because it is difficult to tell when they are cooked through by color alone.